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cjrl-2309	Zayas Morales, Carlo E.	The Shrouded Borderland Between Preemption and Discrimination: A Framework for the Analysis of City Ordinances That Require Proof of Citizenship or Legal Residency as a Condition to Rent a Dwelling Place	2015	26	.pdf	application/pdf	15881	578	41	While one of the federal circuit courts examined in this Note has found such ordinances to not be preempted by federal immigration law, the other two courts to consider the issue have reached the opposite conclusion. In general terms, the doctrine mandates that a state law or regulation—despite being a valid exercise of a sovereign state’s legislative competence—must give way to federal law when it interferes with, or is contrary to, federal law.13 Although the general notion holds that federal law controls over state law in the event of a conflict between the two,14 preemption doctrine remains a murky and confusing field of American constitutional law due to the Supreme Court’s failure to articulate a coherent framework for determining when federal law and state law conflict.15 The Supreme Court itself has acknowledged that its pronouncements in the field of preemption are embroiled in a certain degree of uncertainty.	cache/cjrl-2309.pdf	txt/cjrl-2309.txt